13.22: The 2024 Spirit Awards

Welcome to a re-cap of the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards! We here are Geek Girl Soup are members of Film Independent, so we get screeners and vote every year. Always so much fun!

Happening more and more each year, we are seeing some Spirit Award nominees also nominated for an Oscar (and other awards). This year we’ve got overlap with “American Fiction,” “Past Lives,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” and “The Zone of Interest.”

What makes the Spirit Awards so different from the usual suspects in the film and TV awards arena is that Film Independent focuses smaller, lower-budget films that highlight “uniqueness of vision, original[ity], and provocative subject matter.” Spirit Award films represent a diversity of people, cultures, and ideas, the likes of which you just don’t find in the other major awards shows.

We always find some amazing gems amongst the nominees. Listen in to hear our reactions to and opinions of this year’s winners.

SPOILER ALERT for “True Detective: Night Country.” Toward the end of this episode, we discuss season of “True Detective,” that just recently ended. We do share spoilers.

Next week: “Spaceman” on Netflix. Directed by Johan Renck (director of “Chernobyl.” Starring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan. Not a comedy!